Screenwriter and author Lee Martin’s latest novel, The Grant Conspiracy: Wake of the Civil War is ready-made for adaptation for the silver-screen or television with a Robert Conrad cameo a requirement for production. Martin’s history tale of a planned assassination attempt against former President Ulysses S. Grant is ready for central casting and a sequel. In the meantime, during this presidential season of politics, order a copy of Martin’s frolicking Western tale with a great cast of characters, including the war-hero-turned lawyer Matt Tyler, and femme-fatale newspaperwoman Jennifer White and ex-Confederates out for revenge. Martin, who has published 17 Westerns with Avalon and one by Five Star, self-published The Grant Conspiracy and is selling it through Amazon.com. For more information on Martin’s career and publishing history, visit his website: LeeMartin-Screenwriter.com.
December 2015
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- Western Events for December 2015
- I’m Just Joshin’ Ya!
- To Cure Cancer
- The Hashknife Outfit
- Cold Heart, Just Rewards
- The Missouri Kid
- Surviving a Stagecoach Robbery
- Meeting Billy the Kid
- Tombstone’s Religious Side
- House Calls Without A Horse or Buggy
- The Highest Peak
- The Red Sash Gang
- The Man Who Swallowed a Wagon Wheel
- How was Wild Bill Hickok killed?
- Tombstone’s Competitor
- Native Americans in Movies
- The Original War Wagon
- The Maxwell Brothers
- Hang on These Words
- Following Red Cloud
- Billy Hutchinson’s Bird Cage Theater
- Gotta Know the Lingo
- Teddy’s Roughest Riders
- The Nude Duel that Will Not Die
- Fred Waite and the Lincoln County War
- The Youngers Visit Madelia
- You Slapped Wyatt Earp and Lived to Tell?
- River Captain’s Hotel
- Charlie Bowdre’s Blood Stained Photo
- Flint Hills Folklorist Jim Hoy
- Herding with the Wind
- Bob Dalton’s Gang
- Were Indian War soldiers ordered to crush empty shell casings so Indians could not reload them?
- A Brilliant But Doomed Mission
- William Wilson’s Hanging
- Wild Bill’s Paranoia
- The Reluctant Hero
- Hugh Glass’s Deadly Journey
- Antics at the Bird Cage Theater
- Nature’s Complexion
- Seats of Luxury
- What’s in a Name?
- The Bird Cage Theater
- What happened to Pancho Villa’s henchman Rodolfo Fierro?
- Spirit of the Prairie Celebrated
- Sure Cure for Flinchlock Fever
- Tragedy on the Southern Plains
- The Human Custer
- The First Boom Stick
- When Life Imitates Art
- Ken Western
- The First Mountain Man
- Seven Still Magnificent
- How was Morgan Earp killed?
- A Compelling Argument
- The Outlaw Davy Crockett
- Mysterious Dave and the Preacher
- Arizona’s Mail Order Brides
- Burning The Candle At One End
- The Merchant of Death?
- Cowboy Capital of the World
- The Fairbank Train Robbery
- Wild, Wild West
- Handcart Pioneers
- Jesse James’s Publicity Agent
- Epitaph for the Living and the Dead
- What were Old West jails like?
- Watch the Cup, Please
- My Name is Custer: We are Many
- Rockin’ It On The Navajo Trail
- Ghost Dance Tragedy
- Pat Garrett’s Ghostwriter
- The Great Menken
- Treasures of the Black Range
- Townful of Santas
- Life in Tombstone
- Supreme Cowgirl
- Thank You, Sarah Jane Woodson